Introducing Maven: A Build Tool for Today's Java Developers

© Balaji Varanasi 2019

B. VaranasiIntroducing Mavenhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5410-3_6

6. Maven Archetypes

Balaji Varanasi¹ 

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Salt Lake City, UT, USA

 

Up to this point in the book, you have created Maven projects manually, generating the folders and creating the pom.xml files from scratch. This can become tedious, especially when you frequently have to create projects. To address this issue, Maven provides archetypes. Maven archetypes are project templates that allow users to generate new projects easily.

Maven archetypes also provide a great platform to share best practices and enforce consistency beyond Maven’s standard directory structure. For example, an enterprise can create an archetype with the company’s branded cascading style sheets ...